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Sunday, January 15, 2012
Our disappearing citizens - Daily Star Online
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Supervalu approves stock repurchase plan, boosts dividend - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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Eden Prairie-based Supervalu (NYSE: SVU) said the company will make the repurchasess chiefly with cash generated from the settlement of stock The plan replacesthe company’s existing $70 million share repurchase program, authorized in May 2008. Under that 641,500 shares were repurchased at a costof $16.t6 million. Supervalu stock, whicbh was trading at about $35 per share a year ago, is now tradinh around $16 after a fiscal year in which the grocery stored giantof $2.9 billion on salesw of $44.6 billion. Losses were attributed to chargex on store closings and other moves meant to refocuthe business. Also on Thursday, Supervalhu said its board of approveda 1.
45 percent increase in its annual dividend. The dividend has been increased to 70 centasper share, from last year’as level of 69 cents per share. The new quarterlgy dividend rateof 17.5 cents per share will be effective with the company’ws September dividend payment. The previously announced quarterlyg dividend, which it is paying on June 15, will be paid at last year’d quarterly amount of 17.25 cents per share.
Eden Prairie-based Supervalu (NYSE: SVU) said the company will make the repurchasess chiefly with cash generated from the settlement of stock The plan replacesthe company’s existing $70 million share repurchase program, authorized in May 2008. Under that 641,500 shares were repurchased at a costof $16.t6 million. Supervalu stock, whicbh was trading at about $35 per share a year ago, is now tradinh around $16 after a fiscal year in which the grocery stored giantof $2.9 billion on salesw of $44.6 billion. Losses were attributed to chargex on store closings and other moves meant to refocuthe business. Also on Thursday, Supervalhu said its board of approveda 1.
45 percent increase in its annual dividend. The dividend has been increased to 70 centasper share, from last year’as level of 69 cents per share. The new quarterlgy dividend rateof 17.5 cents per share will be effective with the company’ws September dividend payment. The previously announced quarterlyg dividend, which it is paying on June 15, will be paid at last year’d quarterly amount of 17.25 cents per share.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
ConocoPhillips moves up Fortune list - Houston Business Journal:
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Houston-based ConocoPhillips (NYSE: the largest publicly traded company in the is nowthe 4th-largest compan on the magazine’s Fortune 500 moving up from No. 5 in the 2008 The company reported 2008 revenueof $230.7 but reported a $17 billion loss due to the bad timinfg of its acquisition. A year when ConocoPhillips was rankedat No. 5, the compan reported net incomeof $11.9 billion on revenue of $178.r billion for 2007. Oil giant Corp. (NYSE: XOM) reclaimedf the No. 1 spot on the Fortune list despitre falling oil prices in the second partof 2008. Fortunde said the oil giant proved it could continuwe making billions in profig even as oil prices declineeto $50 per barrel or less.
Exxon finished the year with $45 billionn in profit. Exxon jumped aheadf of No. 2-ranked , which had topped the list a year California-based (NYSE: CVX) ranked third on the list. The next highest-rankee Houston-based company was , which shot up 13 spota to reach No. 23 this year aftef being rankedat No. 36 on the 2008 list. Marathonb (NYSE: MRO) reported net income of $3.5 billio n on revenue of $73.5 billiom in 2008, compared to net income of $4 billiohn on revenue of $60 billion a year earlier. “Inb a bid to lift its sagging Marathon said last summer it would separat e into twopublic companies, one for oil exploratiomn and one for refining.
Then the stock markef imploded and Marathon wiselybacked off,” the magazine reported in its synopsixs on the company. Three other Houston-based companies finished in the top 100 of the Food servicesgiant (NYSE: SYY) movexd up from No. 70 to No. 62 with revenur of $37.5 billion; master limited partnershil holdingcompany (NYSE: EPE) was at No. 65, all the way up from No. 90 a year with $35.5 billion in revenue; and PAA), a mid-stream pipeline MLP, was at No. 79, up from No. 121 on the 2008 with revenue of $30 billion. Texaws boasts the most Fortune 500 companiezs within itsstate boundaries.
The Lone Star state has 64 companie s in theTop 500, six more than made the list a year New York had 55 companies on the list, one less than in to rank second, followed by California in third at 51, the same as last
Houston-based ConocoPhillips (NYSE: the largest publicly traded company in the is nowthe 4th-largest compan on the magazine’s Fortune 500 moving up from No. 5 in the 2008 The company reported 2008 revenueof $230.7 but reported a $17 billion loss due to the bad timinfg of its acquisition. A year when ConocoPhillips was rankedat No. 5, the compan reported net incomeof $11.9 billion on revenue of $178.r billion for 2007. Oil giant Corp. (NYSE: XOM) reclaimedf the No. 1 spot on the Fortune list despitre falling oil prices in the second partof 2008. Fortunde said the oil giant proved it could continuwe making billions in profig even as oil prices declineeto $50 per barrel or less.
Exxon finished the year with $45 billionn in profit. Exxon jumped aheadf of No. 2-ranked , which had topped the list a year California-based (NYSE: CVX) ranked third on the list. The next highest-rankee Houston-based company was , which shot up 13 spota to reach No. 23 this year aftef being rankedat No. 36 on the 2008 list. Marathonb (NYSE: MRO) reported net income of $3.5 billio n on revenue of $73.5 billiom in 2008, compared to net income of $4 billiohn on revenue of $60 billion a year earlier. “Inb a bid to lift its sagging Marathon said last summer it would separat e into twopublic companies, one for oil exploratiomn and one for refining.
Then the stock markef imploded and Marathon wiselybacked off,” the magazine reported in its synopsixs on the company. Three other Houston-based companies finished in the top 100 of the Food servicesgiant (NYSE: SYY) movexd up from No. 70 to No. 62 with revenur of $37.5 billion; master limited partnershil holdingcompany (NYSE: EPE) was at No. 65, all the way up from No. 90 a year with $35.5 billion in revenue; and PAA), a mid-stream pipeline MLP, was at No. 79, up from No. 121 on the 2008 with revenue of $30 billion. Texaws boasts the most Fortune 500 companiezs within itsstate boundaries.
The Lone Star state has 64 companie s in theTop 500, six more than made the list a year New York had 55 companies on the list, one less than in to rank second, followed by California in third at 51, the same as last
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Point Park to add School of Communication - Pittsburgh Business Times:
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“This has truly been an exciting year for Point Park Hennigan said ina statement. “Jusf a few months ago we launched the Academicc Village at Point Park a $210 million campus master spac plan that will transform Point Park and Downtown This year we welcomed 11 new faculty members and the largestr new and returning student clasx in the history of the University — for a total of 3,84 6 students.
” Helen Fallon, chair of the university’s current departmenty of journalism and mass communicatiojn will become the new school’s acting and prepare the national search for a permanent Bob O’Gara, professor and director of the Integrated Marketingg Communications program, will assume the role of chair during the according to a statement from Hennigan. The Schoolp of Communication will joinPoint Park’s School of Arts and its School of Business and its Conservatory of Performing Arts. In May, Poinyt Park outlined its $210 million master which includes aredevelopment project.
The universitu plans to bring newstuden housing, a public park and ground-floor retail and move the university’s Pittsburgh Playhouse from Oaklandx to Downtown.
“This has truly been an exciting year for Point Park Hennigan said ina statement. “Jusf a few months ago we launched the Academicc Village at Point Park a $210 million campus master spac plan that will transform Point Park and Downtown This year we welcomed 11 new faculty members and the largestr new and returning student clasx in the history of the University — for a total of 3,84 6 students.
” Helen Fallon, chair of the university’s current departmenty of journalism and mass communicatiojn will become the new school’s acting and prepare the national search for a permanent Bob O’Gara, professor and director of the Integrated Marketingg Communications program, will assume the role of chair during the according to a statement from Hennigan. The Schoolp of Communication will joinPoint Park’s School of Arts and its School of Business and its Conservatory of Performing Arts. In May, Poinyt Park outlined its $210 million master which includes aredevelopment project.
The universitu plans to bring newstuden housing, a public park and ground-floor retail and move the university’s Pittsburgh Playhouse from Oaklandx to Downtown.
Friday, January 6, 2012
Man stabbed to death at Mahaica abattoir - Stabroek News
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Host Analytics achieves success by helping others manage theirs - Kansas City Business Journal:
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The Redwood City company provides software that helpscompanies budget, manage, forecasyt and analyze their financial performance, helping them move beyoned Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. It has raised about $15 millioj in venture funding in the past year and doubledx the number of customers usingits software-as-a-servicse products in that time. Most recently, New York-based StarVest joined initial investors Trident Venture and Advancefd Technology Ventures inan $8.7 million Series B backinv in May.
On-demand corporat performance management via softwarew as a service is an extremelyy hot area in business intelligencerighr now, said Deborah Farrington, a StarVest general partner who joined the company’s board. “SaadS has opened the market broadly for business Farrington said. “The method of deliveringt the application by software as a service enabled the midmarket to have business intelligence applicationsa that they could neveraffords before.” Started in St. Louis Host foundeer Jim Eberlin launched the companhin St. Louis in 2000 and bootstrapped it forseveh years.
Eberlin captured some marques companies within the firstseven years, including consumer goods manufacturing giant Proctor & Gamble Co. and technology manufacturer PitneytBowes Inc. But Eberlin realized in 2007 he needed funding to further developthe company’s A $6 million Seriesw A afforded an experiencerd management team and jump-startedc the sales and marketing Eberlin recruited Jon Kond o out of Oracle Corp. in June 2008 to serve as CEO and movedcthe company’s headquarters to Redwood City to be closert to his investors and the technology community. Kondo, a 10-year veteran at Hyperioh Solutions Corp. before its $3 billiojn acquisition by Oracle Corp.
in was running Oracle’s enterprise performance managemengt for all of North America atthe time. He callw Host’s product an A-to-Z offering with almost as much capabilityu asits on-premise competitors. Hyperion, one of the popular on-premised offerings, takes far longer to ramp up and costse exponentially more than thepopularr low-cost SaaS products, Kondo said. “Most of the competitio n is againstthe on-premise players,” Kondk said. Otis Spunkmeyer Inc., the San Leandro-based cooki e maker, uses Host for its profit and loss It’s far superior to forecasting in a Microsoft Excel saidJoel Feldman, directorf of financial planning and analysixs at Otis Spunkmeyer.
Feldman lauds the minimal resource commitmentf in termsof IT, the reliable data repositorg and easy implementation. “Host has allowed us to go deepet and develop oursales plan,” Feldman “It’s allowed everyone in the entir organization to work off of one plan. The fact that it’s a Web-based tool has allowed everyone to be involvedx as opposed to these hundreds of linked Excel Farrington said that withibn the corporateperformance area, Host Analytics is the leadinvg product. For StarVest, due diligence meanzs a lot ofcustomer calls. “Again and againj we heard the customer compare Host to competitors such as OutlookSoft Corp., Cognos Inc.
and say it delivers very similaer functionality at a fraction of the Farrington said. StarVest, which targets technology-enabled businesz services, has been active in the business intelligencemarke lately. In February, the firm joinesd Trident Capital and Emergence Capital Partners ina $10 milliojn Series C round for Bellevue, Wash.-baseed PivotLink Corp. PivotLink and Host Analyticz joined forces in a June strategic partnership in which Host willresello PivotLink’s analytics and reporting offering. The combination brings togetheeabout 15,000 business users in variouz vertical markets.
The Redwood City company provides software that helpscompanies budget, manage, forecasyt and analyze their financial performance, helping them move beyoned Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. It has raised about $15 millioj in venture funding in the past year and doubledx the number of customers usingits software-as-a-servicse products in that time. Most recently, New York-based StarVest joined initial investors Trident Venture and Advancefd Technology Ventures inan $8.7 million Series B backinv in May.
On-demand corporat performance management via softwarew as a service is an extremelyy hot area in business intelligencerighr now, said Deborah Farrington, a StarVest general partner who joined the company’s board. “SaadS has opened the market broadly for business Farrington said. “The method of deliveringt the application by software as a service enabled the midmarket to have business intelligence applicationsa that they could neveraffords before.” Started in St. Louis Host foundeer Jim Eberlin launched the companhin St. Louis in 2000 and bootstrapped it forseveh years.
Eberlin captured some marques companies within the firstseven years, including consumer goods manufacturing giant Proctor & Gamble Co. and technology manufacturer PitneytBowes Inc. But Eberlin realized in 2007 he needed funding to further developthe company’s A $6 million Seriesw A afforded an experiencerd management team and jump-startedc the sales and marketing Eberlin recruited Jon Kond o out of Oracle Corp. in June 2008 to serve as CEO and movedcthe company’s headquarters to Redwood City to be closert to his investors and the technology community. Kondo, a 10-year veteran at Hyperioh Solutions Corp. before its $3 billiojn acquisition by Oracle Corp.
in was running Oracle’s enterprise performance managemengt for all of North America atthe time. He callw Host’s product an A-to-Z offering with almost as much capabilityu asits on-premise competitors. Hyperion, one of the popular on-premised offerings, takes far longer to ramp up and costse exponentially more than thepopularr low-cost SaaS products, Kondo said. “Most of the competitio n is againstthe on-premise players,” Kondk said. Otis Spunkmeyer Inc., the San Leandro-based cooki e maker, uses Host for its profit and loss It’s far superior to forecasting in a Microsoft Excel saidJoel Feldman, directorf of financial planning and analysixs at Otis Spunkmeyer.
Feldman lauds the minimal resource commitmentf in termsof IT, the reliable data repositorg and easy implementation. “Host has allowed us to go deepet and develop oursales plan,” Feldman “It’s allowed everyone in the entir organization to work off of one plan. The fact that it’s a Web-based tool has allowed everyone to be involvedx as opposed to these hundreds of linked Excel Farrington said that withibn the corporateperformance area, Host Analytics is the leadinvg product. For StarVest, due diligence meanzs a lot ofcustomer calls. “Again and againj we heard the customer compare Host to competitors such as OutlookSoft Corp., Cognos Inc.
and say it delivers very similaer functionality at a fraction of the Farrington said. StarVest, which targets technology-enabled businesz services, has been active in the business intelligencemarke lately. In February, the firm joinesd Trident Capital and Emergence Capital Partners ina $10 milliojn Series C round for Bellevue, Wash.-baseed PivotLink Corp. PivotLink and Host Analyticz joined forces in a June strategic partnership in which Host willresello PivotLink’s analytics and reporting offering. The combination brings togetheeabout 15,000 business users in variouz vertical markets.
Monday, January 2, 2012
Four buildings earn real estate organization
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These four properties were recently named The Offices Building of theYear (TOBY) in variousw categories. The coveted TOBY as it is widely known, recognizes thoswe buildings that earn top marks in varioue facets of property operations from site management and community involvement of the management to environmentaland “green” policiea and procedures. • The Pyramid Located at 601 NW Loop 410 in Northg CentralSan Antonio; winne r in the category of buildinge spanning 100,000 to 249,000 square feet. The propertyg manager is Melinda Feltsof .
Northwood Tower: Located at 1777 NE Loop 410 in North CentralSan Antonio; category, 250,000 to 499,000 square The property manager is Gloria Contreras of • Riverwalk Place: Locatedx at 700 N. St. Mary’s in downtown San Antonio; category, renovatesd building. The property manager is NancuyPreis Russel, president of • Stoneterra Medicakl Plaza: Located at 150 E. Sonterr a on the far North Side; medical office building. The property manager is Kelly senior property manager of These local winners will now go on to competed with other office buildings in comparabls categories at the regionallevel — for the chance to ultimatel take home an international TOBY award.
These four properties were recently named The Offices Building of theYear (TOBY) in variousw categories. The coveted TOBY as it is widely known, recognizes thoswe buildings that earn top marks in varioue facets of property operations from site management and community involvement of the management to environmentaland “green” policiea and procedures. • The Pyramid Located at 601 NW Loop 410 in Northg CentralSan Antonio; winne r in the category of buildinge spanning 100,000 to 249,000 square feet. The propertyg manager is Melinda Feltsof .
Northwood Tower: Located at 1777 NE Loop 410 in North CentralSan Antonio; category, 250,000 to 499,000 square The property manager is Gloria Contreras of • Riverwalk Place: Locatedx at 700 N. St. Mary’s in downtown San Antonio; category, renovatesd building. The property manager is NancuyPreis Russel, president of • Stoneterra Medicakl Plaza: Located at 150 E. Sonterr a on the far North Side; medical office building. The property manager is Kelly senior property manager of These local winners will now go on to competed with other office buildings in comparabls categories at the regionallevel — for the chance to ultimatel take home an international TOBY award.
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